Treating the challenges faced by the disabled as issues that can be solved with smart engineering, Google's charitable arm, Google.org, has given $20 million USD in grants to nonprofit organizations around the world to help develop open-source technololgy for the disabled. The 30 winners of the Google Impact Challenge: Disabilities launched last spring were the recipients of said grants. About six of the 30 grantees were given $1 million USD, while the average grant was around $750,000 USD.
Some of the projects funded including developing libraries for the visually impaired, devices that can turn manual wheelchairs into powered ones, and cheap, 3D-printed prosthetics for children.
Source: The Verge